TELEGRAPHIC VISION ON THE VELDT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 442, 1 December 1908, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC VISION ON THE VELDT.

, In the Occult Review is the story of a car-driver on the tramways of Croydon, as taken down from his lips by a correspondent. The cardriver was serving in the Grenadiers under Lord Methuen, in the South African campaign, and after the Battle of Magersfontein he was put on sentry duty at about midnight. After half an hour he was seized with trembling fits, and could not keep his gaze from two large boulders of rock some 4ft in height:—“ I thought I saw a form of some kind between the boulders. I jumped to the conclusion that it was a soldier. In one second it had vanished. I challenged, but got no answer. Those pieces of rock seemed to terrify me. I advanced towards them, but saw noth ing ; I retired back and took up my position, leaning on my rifle. My eyes went again to the same place, and there, standing between the two boulders, was the outline of a woman. I brought my rifle to the present, covering the form which stood before me. I saw her walk from one piece of rock to the other. I watched and saw her repeat her action ; she then stopped and leaned* up against one of the boulders- with her back me. I again advanced to where she stood. When I had got to within 40 or 50yds of her, I saw her turn round and look straight at me with a careworn and sorrowful face. Then I saw and knew who she was. It was my own mother. I was not mistaken, for she walked within a few yards of me, at the same time looking me dead it the face. She then turned about and walked to the two pieces of rock,'and I saw no more of her. About three weeks after I received a letter from home telling me of her death and burial.” The correspondent adds that this mother was a woman of good birth and education who married much beneath her in life. The car-driver is still sometimes influenced by the invisible world, but fights against these experiences.